On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:31:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'm soaking up a lot of your time (again). I'll return with any real > > Gentoo questions I run into and to run down the final plan before I > > execute it. Thanks so much for your help. Not sure what I'd do > > without you. :) > > I'm sure Neil would step in if I'm hit by a bus > He'd say the same things, and use about 1/4 of the words it takes me ;-)
So far in this thread, I've managed about 0/4 of the words you've used... Oh damn! But yes, a build host and adding --usepkg=y to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in make.conf gives a massive speed increase. Run the build host in an easily recovered environment, like a VM, and you don't even have to monitor the world update on it, just run a script in the early hours that does emerge --sync && emerge -uXX @world and check your mailbox for errors before running emerge on the "clients". The use clusterssh or dsh to update them all at once. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many radical feminists does it take to change a light bulb? A. Two - one to change the bulb and one to write a book about the passive role of the socket.
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